Centre for Research & Education for Social Transformation (CREST), an autonomous institution under government of Kerala invites application from SC/ST candidates who have qualified for BTech Degree courses through Common Entrance Examination 2017 for two weeks orientation course starts from second week of July 2017. The course will cover modules in Engineering Graphics, Engineering Mechanics, Engineering Mathematics, English communication Skill and Personality Development. The course is conducted by experts in various disciplines. The fully residential programme has been designed to enable students to actively involved in curricular and co-curricular activities in the Engineering colleges and to improve their learning skills. The candidates will be provided mentoring support from CREST throughout their four year BTech Degree course. The expenses of the candidates towards travel, food and accommodation will be met by CREST.

Candidates may apply online on or before July 10, 2017.

For applying online mode candidates are first required to go to the CREST website www.crest.ac.in and click on the home page to open the link "Registration" to open the online application form. Candidates should carefully fill in the details in the online application at the appropriate places very carefully and click on the "SUBMIT" button at the end of the online application format. Before pressing the "SUBMIT" button, candidates are advised to verify every field filled in the application.
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Public Lecture in connection with the Kerala Diamond Jubilee celebrations

Politico-economic and socio-cultural transformations that Kerala society had gone through over the last 60 years stand out as a special instance of democratization wherein the under-classes could achieve reasonable upward mobility and enhanced citizenship. Though the development trajectory is ridden with stories of both successes and failures, it is fairly evident that the state had been able to build a secular/progressive social fabric that reflects broad democratic consensus in Kerala cutting across caste and religious identities. CREST is organizing a series of public lecturers on a broad range of issues that were instrumental in the democratization of Kerala. The lecture entitled Sixty Years’ Existence Between Kerala and India: Reflections on Politics, Culture and Language, delivered by Dr.Franson Manjali, is the third lecture of the series.

Franson Manjali teaches in the School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, at JNU. He was born in Mysore, and grew up in Calicut which he left after a completing B. Sc. degree at Calicut University in 1976. He has a long association with Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, first as an M.A. and doctoral student and then as a faculty. After a year’s teaching at University of Delhi, he went on to do post-doctoral studies for two years at the Sorbonne and EHESS, Paris. He is author of several books and academic papers. His recent book is Labyrinths of Language – Philosophical and Cultural Investigations, 2014.
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